Hi everybody Iam a new member. I am from senegal and I am currently learning linguistics at cheikh anta diop university. I hope the club will help me to improve my english and to be acquainted with other members.

This week, US Government and both Houses of Congress are going to conclude a thorniest issue recently in USA: Gun control. Up to now, this country has been known as a free country where people are not restricted from owning a firearm. This free right, on one hand, has allowed US citizen to protect themselves with a personal hot weapon, but on the other hand, it has made a lot of tragedies namely some indiscriminate shootings recently at elementary schools in USA.

Actually, this controversial issu

Hello dear MyEC members,

It's time for another new photo challenge! Viewing others' photos can also be a fun way to learn English. Today, we would like to invite you to create a photo challenge with idioms or phrases as the photo title. All photos posted must use idioms or phrases in the title.

How to participate:

• Upload a photo to MyEC Photo Gallery. The photo must be your own photo. We CAN NOT approve copied photos from the Internet. Check our photo guidelines.
  
• Name the title of your photo an i

I ain't interested in sort of these things you know  because i am a typical teenager who consider these things as boring i cant help it and most of all i cant be persuaded easily but u know there is a saying which  my father is really fond of and i quote ' if you are my daughter then i am your dad' and he sort of manipulated me that he would buy me a really 'posh' ice-cream here .they say money could do any thing and here i am writing this blog for money being manipulated by my lovely father

so p

"I'm sorry for your story, but I think you are a very strong and independent girl, um...actually my mom hopes for me to find a submissive girl. So...thanks for your coming and good luck to you."
That was my ninth blind date, as you can see, it failed. I am Stormy, a policewoman, 28, and single since I graduated from university and broke up with my first love. We broke up because... Alas! Better let bygones be bygones. Since then, I have stayed single, lonely but also free, and I am a workaholic

I wrote this blog based on Tara's Practising English Online Challenge. I've added some information and made some amendments from my original blog.

Years ago, I stumbled upon EC when I was looking for an English Chat Room to alleviate my boredom. I met many good friends, but at that time, not many English Teachers or native English Speakers joined the Chat Room. When I re-entered EC somewhere in October last year, EC had changed. I found out many English Teachers and also native English Speakers w

 Hi everyone, I want to talk a bit more this post, about a news which is spreaded through Web, and It's related to, at first, strange, Google`s  new tool called "Innactive Account Manager ". It was unveiled on April 11 by Andreas Tuerk - product manager - on Google Data Liberation Blog. If you want, you can follow this link and read on your own: http://dataliberation.blogspot.com

 The goal of this new tool is, according to Google, allows google`s account holders manage their digital lives by sett

Love is a lovely and loving word. But do you really know it well?
Actually love has many different forms, or you can say "she" has a large family. Ok, let's have a look at different love forms:

Noun: Love, lover, loveliness
Adjective: Lovely, loveable, loving, loved
Adverb: Lovingly.
Do I leave out any of "her" family members? If I do, please remind me!

Girls, mind you, at least look for a guy who knows different love forms; Boys, from now on, keep all the love forms in mind, or the smart girls w

This blog post discusses ESP as a type of English class. The blog is not at a beginner level and will be too difficult for beginners unless you take your time using your dictionary and the vocabulary words at the end. I do hope that upper intermediate readers will be able to understand this topic easily.

ESP stands for English for Specific Purposes.  It is sometimes called English for Special Purposes which means the same. 

ESP describes English classes designed to teach specialized or technical E

This blog is motivated by Tara Benwell's writing challenge. To be honest, I like writing challenges because you can see different sparkling ideas from different bloggers, and that's really a cool thing!

Hello, everyone! I am Mickey! I joined MyEC during my last summer holiday. It was in July if my memory serves me well. I am writing this blog to share with you my adventures of practising English on MyEC.
You may want to ask why I joined MyEC. That's a question, and I have thought about it every o

First of all, I would like to extend my gratitude for all great persons who manage and administrate this great site .. really I have learned a lot of English stuff here and my English gets better and better only thorough EC than any other English site .. and i am very happy with this blog posted by TARA because it is good opportunity to show you the methods and ways that EC site introduce it to us which helped me to improve English better and better as following:-

1- Learning new vocabularies and

Born in a family where most of the members are teachers I and my two sisters are expected to be teachers as well. There is a problem though I hate school ever since I step on it the first time. On my entire school life I was constantly looking for a reason not to attend school.  School back then was just a way for me to get away with house hold chores. Up to these days I still can say that the reason I finish University is because back then it’s one of the major requirement to get a job. It took

In few days, I will have to give my final exams. I am supposed to study for them, but I don't have any intentions or passions for that. I think I am so exhausted mentally. The reason that I realized I am mentally so exhausted was a nice message that I recieved from a friend on EC. The message made me think that I have lost true joy and contentment of my life because of my university workloads.

Then, one thing guidde me to another. To take this university workload and stress off of my shoulder, I

I just returned from an excellent TESOL convention in Dallas, Texas. The annual convention provides professional development for English language teachers from all over the world. I always enjoy listening to the ideas of teachers, administrators, publishers, and writers. Like every year, I always come home feeling inspired. 

This year, I attended an excellent session on materials writing. In the English language teaching (ELT) industry, a materials writer is someone who writes materials (tests, l

Who can say watched this animation and read the book and didn’t enjoy J here is a letter from Dadyy- long – legs to judy that I really enjoyed

Judy! I totally agree with you that some people will not ever live , and knowing life as a race.  They want to reach a point in the distant horizon. And they do not realize   they so exhausted and may not reach to the goal .and if they reach they see their self in the finish line in while they haven’t noticed to the direction and haven’t enjoyed ,then it i

My favorite punctuation is a question mark. It's love at first sight, the first time I learnt the punctuations, I fell in love with it. As for the reasons, I can blurt out at least 3.

First, it is the cutest punctuation! Dont you think it looks like a part of our body? Yes, it is like our ear! Looking at your eye, nose and your mouth in the mirror, they also form a ? shape.

Second, it is one of the most common used punctuations. It's like a hook, intriguing your curiosity and make you think.

Third,

While I was in the main chat room yesterday, a fellow EC member asked me to bring up a topic. I told him in jest: “Okay, how about my criminal mind?” He replied with another question: “Why do people kill…commit murder?” In answer, I typed the words “greed”, “power”, “lust”. His next question shocked me. “Will you have the heart to do it?” Whoa! I almost fell off the chair. I was about to answer again when all of a sudden other members entered the chat room and then all I could see were “hi”, “he

Record music and voice >>

“Ma-ma, what's that?"
"That's a tractor!"
"A tractor, oh, tractor, tractor..."
"Baby [小宝], pick that bottle up!"
"O-k" Baby was excited and happy, just like an innocent little kid.
"Rumble, rumble, rumble..." All of a sudden, a train screamed by. As the rumbling and whoosh of the train speeded through the countryside, some farmers witnessed the accident and called the hospital as soon as possible. Before the ambulance arrived, however, the woman had died.
"Ma-ma, that tractor, that tractor, just pass

Be optimistic think about the other smile to them laugh as u like and give the others peace you will find your happyness